Maybe the only productive thing I’ve done recently is write Blosxom plugins. For this I apologize to the world and to myself.

Today, I’ve hacked the increasingly unavailable better_title 2.0b by Tony Williams to work a little bit, well, better. The changes I’ve made include:

• more reliably gets the title of individual entry (tolerates \W characters in filename)
• handles date URLs where month names (as opposed to numbers) are used
• only the top folder in the path is displayed, and it is capitalized to emulate a human-comprehensible category
• the plugin should work with $file_extensions other than txt
• the default settings were changed for a more standard appearance

Apologies to Mr. Williams. Download worse_title 0.1.

Writing these plugins is seeming more and more futile. typo simultaneously appears absurdly bare-bones and deliciously full-featured. It’s only a matter of time, I’m afraid.